The Sage of Waterloo

By Leona Francombe

Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815, Waterloo, Battle of (Belgium : 1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01172689, Fiction, Influence, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, historical, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Fiction, historical, general, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01032683, Fiction, war & military, Rabbits, New York Times reviewed, Belgium, fiction

Description: "On June 17, 1815, the Duke of Wellington amassed his troops at Hougoumont, an ancient farmstead not far from Waterloo. The next day, the French attacked--the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo--sparking a brutal, day-long skirmish that left six thousand men either dead or wounded. William is a white rabbit living at Hougoumont today. Under the tutelage of his mysterious and wise grandmother Old Lavender, William attunes himself to the echoes and ghosts of the battle, and through a series of adventures he comes to recognize how deeply what happened at Waterloo two hundred years before continues to reverberate"--Amazon.com.